History of Mathematics, Problem Solving, Mathematical Investigation, Instrumentation and

Assessment (5%)
1. A man started painting a wall at 9:00AM and was able to finish 3/5 of it at 10:30AM.
Continuing at this rate, at what time will he finish painting the wall?
a. 11:35 AM
b. 12:30 AM
c. 11:30 AM
d. 12:15 AM
2. Michael is 15 years older than his brother Rafael. However, y years ago Michael was
twice as old as Rafael. If Rafael is now x years old and x > y, find the value of x-y?
a. 13
b. 14
c. 15
d. 16
3. Two buses leave the same station at 9:00 pm. One bus travel north at the rate of 30
kph and the other travels east at 40 kph. How many kilometers apart are the buses
at 10 pm?
a. 50 km
b. 70 km
c. 100 km
d. 140 km
4. Julie spent one-sixth of her money in one store. In the next store, she spent three
times as much as she spent in the first store, and had 80 pesos left. How much
money did she have at the start?
a. 240
b. 252
c. 360
d. 300
5. Two buses leave the same station at 8:00 a.m. One bus travel at the rate of 30 kph
and the other travels at 40 kph. If they go on opposite direction, how many km apart
are the buses at 9:00 a.m.?
a. 70 km
b. 10 km
c. 140 km
d. 50 km
6. wo buses leave the same station at 7:00 a.m. One bus travel north at the rate of 30
kph and the other travels west at 40 kph. How many km apart are the buses at 9:00
a.m.?
a. 70 km
b. 100 km
c. 140 km
d. 150 km
7. Rosalinda was asked to get the perimeter of a rectangle whose width is 2 √5 mm and
whose length is 5 √ 5 mm. Which of the following should be her answer?
a. 7 √ 10 mm
b. 14 √ 10 mm
c. 14 √ 5 mm
d. 10 √ 5 mm
8. A senior class of 50 girls and 70 boys sponsored a dance. If 40% of the girls and 50
% of the boys attended the dance, approximately what percent attended?
a. 44
b. 46
c. 42
d. 40
9. If 5 men can do a job in 12 days, how long will it take 10 men to complete this task,
assuming that they would work at the same time?
a. 20 days
b. 6 days
c. 2 days
d. 0.06 days
10. A photographer wishes to enlarge a picture 18 cm long and 12 cm wide so that it
will be 36 cm wide. How long will the enlarged picture be?
a. 54 cm
b. 72 cm
c. 24 cm
d. 6 cm
11. If 8 secretaries can type 800 pages in 5 hours, how long would it take for 12
secretaries to type 800 pages at the same rate?
a. 7 ½ hours
b. 3 1/3 hours
c. 10 hours
d. 2 ½ hours
12. An orange light blinks every 4 seconds. A blue one blinks every 5 seconds while a
red one blinks every 6 seconds. How many times will they blink together in two
hours?
a. Once
b. 120 times
c. 10 times
d. 60 times
13. Clarita spent two-eight of her money in one store. In the next store, she spent twice
as much as she spent in the first store. If she had 80 pesos left, how much money did
she have from the start?
a. 240 pesos
b. 252 pesos
 c. 320 pesos
d. 460 pesos
14. Ron bought X number of notebooks at P23.00 each, Y pad papers at 18.45 each, and
Z ballpens at P8.25 each. If he gave an amount of P1000 to the cashier, how much
change did he receive?
a. 434.25 pesos
b. 334.25 pesos
c. 1000 - [(23.00)(X) + (18.45) (Y) + (8.25) (Z)]
d. None of these
15. Which of the graphs below best represents the following scenario? Avel is running
at a steady rate and then comes to a hill, which causes him to run at a slower rate.
Once he reaches the top of the hill, he runs down the hill very fast. Upon reaching
the bottom of the hill, he resumes his original pace.

a.

b.

c.

d.
16. The price of an item is increased by 70% and then offered at 40% discount. What
happened to the original price?
a. There is an increase of 30%.
b. There is an increase of 28%.
c. There is an increase of 2%.
d. There is an increase of 32%
17. Three cavans of rice for a family of six members last for 5 weeks. At this rate, how
many weeks will 4 cavans of rice last a family of 8 members?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 5 1/3
d. 6
18. A certain number of six and nines are added to give a sum of 126. If the numbers of
sixes and nines are interchanged, the new sum is 114. How many of each were there
after the switch?
a. Ten sixes and 6 nines
b. Four sixes and Twelve nines
c. Seven sixes and nine nines
d. Six sixes and Ten nines
19. When students in a certain college are grouped by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's or 6's at a time,
there remain, 1,2,3,4, or 5 students respectively. When the students are grouped by
7's, no student is left. What is the smallest possible number of students in the
school?
a. 227
b. 1534
c. 1379
d. 2778
20. John's transcript shows x number of 3-unit courses and y number of 5-unit courses
for a total of 64 units. Which of the following may appear in the transcript?
a. 2 x's and 18 y’s
b. 13 x's and 5 y's
c. 11 x's and 3 y's
d. 9 x's and 8 y's
21. An item is offered at 20% discount. Later, it is offered at 30% discount. If the new
selling price is P112, what is the first original price?
a. 162
b. 200
c. 224
d. 1866.67
22. Mr. Jimenez owns a 10 ½ hectare tract of land. He plans to subdivide this tract into
¼ hectare lots. He must first set aside 5/25 of the total land for roads. How many
lots will this tract yield?
a. 33
b. 35
c. 42
d. 45
23. A student has ten posters to pin up on the wall of her room, but there is space or
only seven. In how many ways can she choose the posters to be pinned up?
 a. 5040
b. 604,800
c. 120
d. 7
24. Patrick wishes to spotlight a painting on a wall. The center of the painting is 2 √ 2 m
from the floor and the ceiling is 4 √ 2 m high. The spotlight is placed in the ceiling
2 √ 6 m from the wall. At what angle must the spotlight be placed?
a. 50 °
b. 49 °
c. 67 °
d. 70 °
25. An observer stands 120 meters from a tree and finds that the line of sight to top of
the tree is 30° above the horizontal. Find the height of the tree above eye level.
a. 77 m
b. 65 m
c. 69.28 m
d. 72.8 m
26. Peter is packing his things bought from Singapore. He needs a box good for 125
cubic inches. Which could answer his need?
a. 4x4x4
b. 3x5x6
c. 4x5x6
d. 5x5x5
27. J was instructed to get the area of a rectangle whose width is 5 units less than its
length. If the perimeter is 70 units, what is its area?
a. 490 sq. units
b. 300 sq. units
c. 250 sq. units
d. 210 sq. units
28. N is not more than eighty five percent of the size of M.
a. N ≤ 85%M
b. N ≥ 85%M
c. N <85 %M
d. N >85 %M
29. In mathematics test, 35 students passed and 30% failed. How many students took
the test?
a. 60
b. 50
c. 40
d. 30

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2 2 2 2 2
v −1 3 u −2 uv−v 2 u −3 uv +v u−v
30. ∙ − ÷ is equal to?
uv−u−v +v 2 2
v + 2 v +1 2 uv+ 8u−v −4 v v+ 4
2
 2u+ v−1
a.
v+ 1
3u−1
b.
v +1
3u+ v−1
c.
v +1
3u+ 1
d.
v +1
31. This mathematician proved the existence if infinitely many prime numbers 2500
years ago.
a. Fermat
b. Thales
c. Erastothenes
d. Euclid
32. What is twin primes numbers?
a. Two primes which has difference of three
b. Consecutive numbers with a sum of twice the first prime
c. Consecutive prime numbers with difference of two
d. Two prime numbers whose sum is also a prime.
33. Which of the following pairs are example of twin prime numbers?
a. 5&7
b. 2&5
c. 3&7
d. 7&11
34. A similar calculating table as Pascal's Triangle was already utilized in this country
500 years before Pascal was ever born.
a. Greece
b. China
c. Egypt
d. Arab
35. This inference stated that all even numbers can be written as the sum of two prime
numbers.
a. Mertens conjecture
b. Goldbach conjecture
c. Sieve of Erastothenes
d. Golden ratio
36. The proponent of the 18th century Goldbach Conjecture.
a. Christian Goldbach
b. Lawrence Goldbach
c. Ada Goldbach
d. Isaac Goldbach
37. All of the following failed to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, EXCEPT?
a. Carl Friedrich Gauss
 b. Euler
c. Arnold Arnold
d. Andrew Wiles
38. After World War I, this group of French Mathematicians joined together to revive
tradition and recast all important mathematics into rigorous and precise form,
giving emphasis on a creation of terminologies. What is the name of the group?
a. Bilderberg
b. Bourbaki
c. Vientiane
d. Nuku'alofa
39. What is the fourth dimension?
a. Death
b. Time
c. Distance
d. Point
40. What is the smallest integer that is divisible by 1, 2, ..., 6?
a. 30
b. 60
c. 45
d. 18
41. You can find this shape in Leonardo's sketches.
a. Golden rectangle
b. Ellipses
c. Trapeziod
d. Golden ratio
42. What will you get when you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter?
a. Pi
b. e
c. 1.6803
d. 3.1417
43. The largest known prime number was discovered by?
a. David Slowinski
b. Bryant Tuckerman
c. Laura Nickel
d. Curt Noll
44. The Sumerian Mathematics was based on this numeric system?
a. 10
b. 50
c. 60
d. 16
45. In the Egyptian Civilization, one cubit pertains to?
a. The length of the palm
 b. The length of the elbow to the fingertips
c. The length of the right hand and left fingertips
d. The length of the forehead to the chin.
46. The system of writing in Egypt?
a. Cuneiform
b. Hieroglyphics
c. Pictograph
d. Phoenetic
47. Sumerian/Babylonians writing?
a. Cuneiform
b. Hieroglyphics
c. Pictograph
d. Phoenetic
48. This number was considered as the holiest number by the Pythagoreans?
a. 1
b. 10
c. 100
d. 7
49. The first portable calculator appeared in which year?
a. 1970
b. 1920
c. 1987
d. 1941
50. Which famous mathematician died in a duel aged 20?
a. Pierre de Fermat
b. Rene Descartes
c. Evariste Galois
d. Carl Friedrich Gauss
51. The mathematician Pythagoras was born in which Greek island?
a. Crete
b. Samos
c. Rhodes
d. Pierre
52. In 1736, Leonard Euler solved a famous mathematical problem about the bridges of
Konigsberg. Where is Konigsberg today?
a. Sweden
b. Russia
c. Germany
d. Italy
53. The mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton was born in which year?
a. 1742
b. 1542
 c. 1642
d. 1842
54. The equal sign "=" was invented Robert Recorde in which year?
a. 1900 AD
b. 1557 AD
c. 350 BC
d. 1772 AD
55. In Roman Numerals, the letter L stands for what number?
a. 50
b. 100
c. 1000
d. 500
56. The word Algebra comes from which language?
a. Arabic
b. Greek
c. Latin
d. Egyptian
57. In 1976 the Four Color Theorem was the first major theorem to be proved using
what?
a. A computer
b. A competition in a news paper
c. Only one side of A4 paper
d. The first portable calculator
58. He is considered as the greatest of mathematician of antiquity. He calculated the
area under the arc of a parabola and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of
pi?
a. Aristotle
b. Archimedes
c. Thales
d. Pythagoras
59. Famous for his completeness theorem?
a. Kurt Godel
b. Davin Hilbert
c. Arthur Cayley
d. Brahmagupta
60. Born in 1707, a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. In 1736, he solved
the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem.
a. Leonard Euler
b. Paul Erdos
c. Isaac Newton
d. Pierre de Fermat
61. He published more papers than any other mathematician in history. He died in
1996.
a. Leonard Euler
b. Paul Erdos
c. Isaac Newton
d. Pierre de Fermat
62. Newton and Leibniz are both credited with the invention of?
a. Trigonometry
b. Calculus
c. Probability
d. Analytic Geometry
63. What is the name of the study of triangles?
a. Geometry
b. Trigonometry
c. Probability
d. Analytic Geometry
64. He was born in 1642 and went on to build the first practical reflecting telescope and
develop and entirely new field on mathematics?
a. Leonard Euler
b. Paul Erdos
c. Isaac Newton
d. Pythagoras
65. Discovered a very useful fact about the sides of a right triangle?
a. Leonard Euler
b. Paul Erdos
c. Isaac Newton
d. Pythagoras
66. A branch of pure mathematics concerned with the study of numbers and integers in
particular?
a. Calculus
b. Trigonometry
c. Number Theory
d. Abstract Algebra
67. A three volume work on the foundations of math, published in 1910 by Alfred North
Whitehead and Bertrand Russel?
a. Principia Mathematica
b. The Elements of Euclid
c. The Discourse of Methods
d. The Last Theorem
68. Some considers this mathematician as the first modern school of mathematics. He is
famous for the statement, "I think therefore I am"?
a. Rene Descartes
 b. Stephen Wolfram
c. Pierre de Fermat
d. Blaise Pascal
69. Famous on developing a Mathematical software application. In 2002. He published a
book named A New Kind of Science that intends to bring change in paradigm?
a. Rene Descartes
b. Stephen Wolfram
c. Pierre de Fermat
d. Blaise Pascal
70. This mathematician is famous for his last theorem?
a. Rene Descartes
b. Stephen Wolfram
c. Pierre de Fermat
d. Blaise Pascal
71. He invented the first counting machine in 1645. His gambling habit led him to the
study of probability?
a. Rene Descartes
b. Stephen Wolfram
c. Pierre de Fermat
d. Blaise Pascal
72. Known to be the "Maker of Mathematicians"?
a. Pythagoras
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. Thales
73. He stressed that mathematician is more on understanding about reality?
a. Pythagoras
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. Thales
74. Plato founded his Academy in Athens in?
a. 250 BCE
b. 487 BCE
c. 212 AD
d. 387 BCE
75. The sign above the Academy entrance was?
a. Numbers rule the universe
b. Let no one be ignorant of Geometry enter here
c. God is number
d. Thinking and Mathematics
76. The following are included in Plato's Platonic Solids, EXCEPT?
a. Tetrahedron
 b. Icosahedreon
c. Cube
d. Nonahedron
77. The following mathematicians studied and taught in Alexandria, EXCEPT?
a. Euclid
b. Archimedes
c. Erastosthenes
d. Thales
78. He calculated the circumference of the earth to a remarkable degree of accuracy?
a. Euclid
b. Archimedes
c. Erastosthenes
d. Thales
79. The first mathematician to tackle the idea of the existence on √−1?
a. Menelaus
b. Heron
c. Diophantus
d. Tartaglia and Cardano
80. Wrote Spherica. A book that deals with the geometry of spheres?
a. Menelaus
b. Heron
c. Diophantus
d. Tartaglia and Cardano
81. The first man to recognize fractions as numbers?
a. Menelaus
b. Heron
c. Diophantus
d. Tartaglia and Cardano
82. The man who gave the name ellipse, parabola and hyperbola as we know then today
and on how to derive them using different sections of a cone?
a. Apollonius of Perga
b. Hipparchus
c. Anatolia
d. Hypatia
83. Usually credited with the beginning of the study of trigonometry?
a. Apollonius of Perga
b. Hipparchus
c. Anatolia
d. Hypatia
84. The first recorded female mathematician who wrote commentaries on Diophantus
and Apollonius?
a. Apollonius of Perga
 b. Hipparchus
c. Anatolia
d. Hypatia
85. The father of geometry?
a. Euclid
b. Theaethetus
c. Eudoxus
d. Hippocrates
86. This book contains 465 theorems that was explained and presented clearly and
logically and that only utilized a compass and a straight edge?
a. Stoicheion
b. Palimpsest
c. Arithmetica
d. None of these
87. Who said, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the Earth."?
a. Archimedes
b. Syracuse
c. Diophantus
d. Eudoxus
88. Wrote the Arithemtica that collected problems that gives numerical solutions to
both determinate an indeterminate equation?
a. Archimedes
b. Diophantus
c. Eudoxus
d. Syracuse
89. Mayan culture used which number system?
a. Sexagesimal
b. Hexagesimal
c. Octal
d. Vigesimal
90. An important tool for Chinese in the administration of their civil service exams in
the ancient times?
a. Jiuzhang Suanshu
b. Ah Bai Bao
c. Bo Chang
d. Chun Dong
91. One of the greatest mathematicians of ancient China who produced detailed
commentary on "Nine Chapters" and give more exact results instead of
approximations on the value of Pi?
a. Liu Hui
b. Sun Tzu
c. Qin Jiushao
 d. Chan Yuen Lung
92. This technique uses the remainders after dividing an unknown number by a
succession of smaller numbers in order to calculate the smallest value of the
unknown number.
a. Chinese Remainder Theorem
b. Linear Diophantine Equation
c. Little Theorem
d. Four Color Scheme
93. The most brilliant Chinese mathematician of 13th century?
a. Liu Hui
b. Sun Tzu
c. Qin Jiushao
d. Chan Yuen Lung
94. This book listed simple Pythagorean triples, an idea that existed long before
Pythagoras was born?
a. Mantra
b. Sulba Sutras
c. Surya Siddhanta
d. Brahmasphutasiddhanta
95. The book that contained roots of modern trigonometry and the first real use of
sines, cosines, inverse sines, tangets and secants?
a. Mantra
b. Sulba Sutras
c. Surya Siddhanta
d. Brahmasphutasiddhanta
96. Buddhist literature presented awareness about numbers and describe them as?
a. Infinite
b. Countable, uncountable and infinite
c. Countable
d. Countable and finite
97. The concept of using zero as a number is usually attributed to this mathematician?
a. Brahmagupta
b. BhaskaraI
c. Bhaskara Il
d. Aryabhatta
98. Estimated the circumference of the Earth as 24, 835 miles in 6th century CE?
a. Brahmagupta
b. Bhaskara I
c. Bhaskara II
d. Aryabhatta
99. One of the most accomplished Indian mathematicians. Responsible for explaining
division by 0?
 a. Brahmagupta
b. Bhaskara I
c. Bhaskara Il
d. Aryabhatta
100. Started the early forms of differentiation and integration for simple functions
in India?
a. Jain of Bakshali
b. Madhava of Sangamagrama
c. Kamal Hassan of Babbar
d. Mahesh Babu